ITF Guide: Links Author: Alexis Carrozza, ITF

This page contains links to help you start researching your neighborhood for the final project. Please contact Alexis if you have any suggestions or questions about this page!

Table of Contents

• Brooklyn College
  • ITF Research Tip: The Reference Librarian
• Approved & Recommended by Prof. Alonso
• Quantitative Resources: Data about New York City
  • ITF Demo Project: Using Social Explorer
  • Databases and Data Visualization Tools
• Related to Class Discussions
• Twitter Lists: Making Twitter Manageable
• Writers, Blogs

Brooklyn College

• Brooklyn College Library
• BC Library Subject Guide: New York City – Gentrification
• BC Library Subject Guide: New York City Demographics
• Website: Brooklyn College ITFs

Approved & Recommended by Prof. Alonso

Below are links to a number links to blogs, publications, and on-line resources that might be of interest. You can also access these links can also be accessed from the sidebar at the homepage. Find something that you think should be added here? Suggest it here!

• Vanishing New York: https://vanishingnewyork.blogspot.com
• Brownstoner: https://www.brownstoner.com/
• New York YIMBY: https://newyorkyimby.com/
• Curbed NY: https://ny.curbed.com/
• WNYC: https://www.wnyc.org/
• Gothamist (now part of WNYC): https://gothamist.com/
• The Real Deal: https://therealdeal.com/
• Gotham Gazette: https://gothamgazette.com/
• City and State NY: https://www.cityandstateny.com/
• Brooklyn Daily Eagle: https://brooklyneagle.com/
• 2nd Ave Sagas: http://secondavenuesagas.com/
• CityLab: https://www.citylab.com/
• City Journal: https://www.city-journal.org/
• Governing: http://www.governing.com/

Quantitative Resources: Data about New York City

ITF Demo Project: Using Social Explorer

A two-part demonstration of combining quantitative data via Social Explorer with historical and cultural analysis of a neighborhood, “The Past and Future of New York,” on my personal website:

Part I: Thinking about the future of New York: Queer and minority culture

Part II: Paris is Burning, Social Explorer, and tracking changes to the neighborhood: 1990 vs. 2014

Databases and Data Visualization Tools

These links were crowdsourced using the suggestions of a number of Instructional Technology Fellows!

• The City Record – a fully searchable database maintained by the NYC Department of Citywide Administrative Services that includes public notices included but not limited to public hearings and meetings, public auctions and sales, solicitations and awards, and official rules proposed and adopted by city government
• New York Department of City Planning Population Division Website with publications, especially The Newest New Yorkers (2013)
• New York City Census FactFinder
• Census Bureau Website
• New York Department of Education data
• Bytes of the Big Apple, “software, data and geographic base map files for the City of New York.”
• Social Explorer and Infoshare. Social Explorer represents a lot of census data in graphical, map format, while Infoshare draws from a wider range of information sources, including “population statistics, immigration trends, socio-economic indicators, birth and death data, hospitalizations, local trade data,” etc.
  • Recommended: access Social Explorer through the Brooklyn College Library’s Database page will allow you greater functionality of use.
  • Read more about Infoshare here and basic information about how to use both tools here.
• NYC Open Data and presentation about what’s available in and how to use NYC Open Data.
• Criminal Court Summonses in New York City, a 2014 guide
• InvestigateNYC, a website that combines some of the resources put out by New York City and explains how to use these resources.

Related to class discussions

• Seminar 4, Spring 2019: Video Playlist – Representing New York City
• Article on crisis in affordable housing: DNA Info NYC: “Even People Who Earn $100K a Year Fear They’ll be Priced Out of New York
• The Creative Class Group – Consulting group founded by Richard Florida
• Youtube: Fran Lebowitz on New York & Andy Warhol
• Youtube: Interview with Robert Caro on Robert Moses (2016)
• Youtube: Ken Burns documentary on the Cross-Bronx Expressway
• Youtube: Ken Burns documentary on Jane Jacobs

Twitter Lists: Making Twitter Manageable

A Twitter list is a curated group of Twitter accounts that only shows tweets from the members of the list (Twitter). Two twitter lists have been created for Seminar 4, NYC Urbanism and Archives & Open Access, in order for students to learn how to find useful information and reputable sources on Twitter. While Twitter receives quite a bit of criticism for circulating dis- and misinformation, it’s important to remember that tweets by many reputable individuals and groups, both private and public entities, often contain information about new services, databases, and resources available to the public.

• Twitter List: NYC Urbanism – ITF-curated list of Twitter accounts related to our seminar’s themes.
• Twitter List: Archives & Open Access – ITF-curated list of open access and digital archives available online.

Reading a list’s timeline lets you see the topics and reactions from urbanism communities in real-time while viewing a list’s Member accounts can serve as reputable sources for additional research.

Writers, Blogs

• Aaron M. Renn, Urbanophile’s New York archives
• Jim Russell – articles at PSMag
• Pete Saunders, The Corner Side Yard